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About eating your own dog food

Posted by: o'wolf in LJ Posts 15 years, 7 months ago

I've successfully updated my machine located at the data centre from openSUSE 11.0 to 11.1 via a remote SSH connection and "zypper dup" yesterday. Contrary to my previous experiences with online upgrades, only minor obstacles were encountered:

• Jabberd, the only package from OBS, got rebuilt between downloading the meta data and the package itself


• Zypper somehow got confused by blank characters in repo locations midway through the update (simply restarting zypper helped)


• I had to copy back my manually edited postfix configuration as it was replaced by the generic one from the RPM


• Tomcat6 startup scripts missing JAVA_HOME

Just two hours of work (mainly observing zypper working and checking functionality), no serious breakage, no trip to the data centre, no manual update of half of the packages. I'm truly impressed.